DOBSON & SONSTHOMAS WILLIAM DOBSON & HENRY HOLMES DOBSON PERCY HOLMES DOBSON & CHARLES WESCOTT DOBSON
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The origins of the firm are in c. 1814 when Thomas Wilkinson founded a retail silversmiths and jewellers business.
In 1845 the business was continued by his son John Wilkinson in partnership with Henry Holmes Dobson (born 1798) under the name Wilkinson & Dobson.
In 1851 the partnership was dissolved and Henry Holmes Dobson continued the business under his own name at 32 Piccadilly.
In 1877 the firm's name changed to Dobson & Sons when Thomas William Dobson (born 1824) and Henry Holmes Dobson II (born 1826) entered in the partnership.
At the death of Henry Holmes Dobson II (1886) the business was continued by Thomas William Dobson until his death in 1905.
Afterwards the business was continued by Percy Holmes Dobson and Charles Westcott Dobson.
Two sons of Henry Holmes Dobson II were apprenticed to George Lambert. They obtained their freedom by service in 1885 (Arthur Edwin Dobson) and 1886 (Robert Holmes Dobson).
STERLING SILVER HALLMARKS
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Henry Holmes Dobson, mark entered in 1851
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Thomas William Dobson and Henry Holmes Dobson II, mark entered in 1877
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Thomas William Dobson, mark entered in 1886, 1895 and 1898
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Percy Holmes Dobson and Charles Westcott Dobson, mark entered in 1905, 1907, 1913 and 1914
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Trade mark used by Dobson & Sons acting as retailer
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